The Sharing of The Truth

It is true that for us to use this term ‘Being’ as a way to point, while we are still understanding with our heads, is to take a commonality (which is a universal experience) and remove all the parts which are different, like everybody has different shape, size, color, attribute and all of these things. And we go to that which is universal and we use the term, Being. Or we even point to that which is even aware of Being. But that's as far as the intellect can take us in terms of pointers. But when you come to an insight about this, intuitive insight about this, then it no longer remains just a conceptual abstraction, no longer remains something just as a way to be able to define some commonality or universality. It becomes like a pure Seeing which is independent of what we may be able to intellectualize or not. We could say for example that all living things are made up of Being, so we are then not only doing the human abstraction we are saying all living things. So I will say ‘Okay if you remove the beak, the feather, can remove the leaves and the branches and you remove all that which is different across all the species - there is a commonality which can be appealed to, which is their own Existence or their Being-ness or their Presence or the Is-ness (like Shankara's example). So that they Are, is the commonality and this is the beautiful way to approach it from the intellect. We have as commonality for the rest of that which appears in this world and that is the commonality of Existence, of existing in this world. But what I am making a distinction with is, that as you go to an insight which is deeper than perceptual insight and conceptual insight then you don't have to do this sort of exercise and come with like a formula that, ‘Okay we remove all that is which is different and focus on that which should be similar and that which is similar is that they exist.’ That becomes apparently... not perceived but just clear – Known; and that is to come to this Self-knowledge, to come to this recognition of the Truth. As opposed to intellectually being able to abstract and say that this is what unites us, our existence unites us; we can say that very beautifully but that is still from the level of the mind, mostly. When that, what we are intellectualizing becomes tasted, as direct taste then that becomes Satsang, then that becomes the sharing of the Truth.